Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Preface 1
The Entries
Awakenings 5
Bed Therapy 7
Cerebral Stimulation (Psychic Stimulation) 13
Color Cure (Chromotherapy, Colorology) 22
Counterirritation 26
Deep Sleep Therapy (Prolonged Narcosis, Prolonged Sleep, Continuous Sleep) 44
Depletive Therapy (“Heroic Therapy,” Antiphlogistic Therapy, “Rush’s System”) 52
Diet 71
Electrotherapy 82
Etherization 96
Exodontia 98
Expressive Therapy 101
Fever Therapy (Pyrotherapy, Pyretotherapy) 120
Fixing (The Eye, Catching the Eye, the Gaze, the Clinical Gaze) 137
Forced Feeding (Forced Alimentation, Gavage) 141
Genital Surgery 152
Hydrotherapy (Hydropathy) 164
Hypothermia (Cold Narcosis, Refrigeration Therapy, Frozen Sleep) 188
Isolation 191
Masks, Gags and Toggles 205
Mechanical Restraints 208
Metallotherapy (Metalloscopy, Burquism) 239
Moral Treatment (Moral Management, Moral Therapy) 242
Organotherapy (Opotherapy, Séquardotherapy, Histotherapy, Zootherapy, Materia Medica Animalis) 254
Orthomolecular Therapy 261
Ovarian Compression 264
Phototherapy (Light Therapy) 267
Pious Frauds (Salutary Demonstrations, Innocent Ruses, Curative Ruses, Suggestive Therapies) 270
Psychic Driving, Accelerated Psychotherapy, or Automated Psychotherapy 275
Psychosurgery 277
Rotation, Oscillation and Vibration 295
Salutary Fear 306
Shock Therapy (Convulsive Therapy) 322
Surgery 346
Total Push 351
Index 355